Viking F20111B manual Cleaning and Maintenance, Glass Ceramic Top, Control Knobs

Cleaning and Maintenance

Any piece of equipment works better and lasts longer when maintained properly and kept clean. Cooking equipment is no exception. Your cooktop must be kept clean and maintained properly.

Glass Ceramic Top

Cleaning of glass ceramic tops is different from cleaning a standard porcelain finish. To maintain and protect the surface of your new glass ceramic top, follow these basic steps:

Rub a few drops of ceramic cleaning cream to the cool soiled area using a damp paper towel. Wipe until all soil and cream are removed. Frequent cleaning leaves a protective coating which is essential in preventing scratches and abrasions.

For heavy burned soil:

1.Apply a few drops of glass ceramic cleaning cream to the cool soiled area.

2.Using a damp paper towel, rub cream into burned on area.

3.Carefully scrape remaining soil with a razor scraper. Hold the scraper at a 30o angle against the ceramic surface.

4.If any soil remains, repeat the steps above. For additional protection, after all soil has been removed, polish the entire surface with the cleaning cream.

5.Buff with a dry paper towel. As the cleaning cream cleans, it leaves a protective coating on the glass surface. This coating helps to prevent buildup of mineral deposits (water spots) and will make future cleaning easier. Dishwashing detergents remove this protective coating and therefore make the glass ceramic top more susceptible to staining.

Control Knobs

Make sure all the control knobs point to the OFF position before removing. Pull the knobs straight off. Wash in detergent and warm water. Dry completely and replace by pushing firmly onto stem.

Cleaning Problems on Glass Ceramic Top

Problem	Cause	To Prevent	To Remove
Brown streaks and	Cleaning with	Use cleaning cream	Use light
specks	sponge or cloth	with clean damp	application of
	containing soil-	paper towel.	cream with clean
	laden detergent		damp towel.
	water.
Blackened burned-	Spatters or	Wipe up all	Clean area with
on spots	spillovers onto a	spillovers as soon	cream and damp
	hot cooking area or	as it is safe and do	towel, or non-
			abrasive pad.
	accidental melting	not put plastic
			Carefully scrape
	of a plastic film,	items on cooking
			with razor held at
	such as a bread	area.
			30o angle.
	bag.
Fine brown/gray	Coarse particles	Wipe the bottom of	Fine scratches are
lines or fine	(salt, sugar) can get	cookware before	not removable but
scratches or	caught on the	cooking. Clean top	can be minimized
abrasions which	bottom of	daily with cream.	by daily use of
have collected soil	cookware and	Inspect surface of	cleaning cream.
	become embedded	ceramic cookware
	into top. Scratches	for rough spots.
	from rough
	cookware.
Smearing or	Use of too much	Use small amount	Dampen towel with
Streaking	cleaning cream or	of cream. Rinse	vinegar and water
	use of a soiled	thoroughly before	and wipe surface.
	towel.	drying.	Dry with clean
			paper towel.
Metal markings or	Sliding or scraping	Do not slide metal	Remove metal
silver/gray marks	metal utensils	objects across glass	marks with cleaning
	across glass top.	top.	cream.
Hard water spots	Condensation from	Make sure the	Mix cleaning cream
	cooking may cause	bottom of the	with water to form
	minerals found in	cookware is dry	paste. Scrub
	water and acids in	before cooking.	vigorously. Also try
	foods to drip onto	Use cleaning cream	using vinegar and
	glass and cause	daily to remove	water mixture.
	grey deposits.	mineral deposits.
Pitting or flaking	Boilover of sugar	Watch sugar and	Turn element to Lo;
	syrup on a hot glass	syrup carefully to	using several paper
	top. This can cause	avoid boilovers.	towels, wipe spill
	pitting if not		up immediately.
	removed		Use scraper if
	immediately.		needed.

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